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Recording of film students doing some imitative shooting.

Generally, the family is the first and smallest social group with which each individual comes into contact. The small moments of family life are often unforgettable…

Jay stands at the harbour, waiting for a cargo ship, that is bringing his father home. But he doesn't know if it will be a reunion or a farewell.

Man Mei, a Hakka woman born in a Miaoli farming village during the Japanese colonial era, carries a life that spans a century and traces the shifting currents of Taiwan's transformation.

When a filmmaker learns that his family’s traditional Chinese courtyard house in Taiwan will be partially demolished to pay off debts, he begins documenting the loss, only to be drawn into filming a politician’s campaign. The project evolves into a deeply personal exploration of exile, non-belonging, and the identity of the Taiwanese diaspora returning home. Weaving childhood nostalgia, political propaganda, and the brutal destruction of his family home through Lacan’s registers of the Real, Symbolic, and Imaginary, the film reflects on memory, loss, and the longing for a voice. Anchored by demolition footage and the nostalgic pop song "Red Dragonfly," The Politician, the Demolition & the Dump Truck asks: Can the Taiwanese diaspora truly belong, and can their voices ever be heard?

Wang Rongyu, founder of Golden Bough Theatre (1993), creates deeply local Taiwanese productions. His works, like "Stage in the Rain," blend folk opera traditions into original musicals, earning acclaim as quintessential "Tai-Ke theater." Overcoming a 2008 crisis, the troupe now completes its 300th outreach performance, touring across Taiwan.

In Taiwan's southernmost Manzhou Township, a group of local women—ordinary homemakers—transform into acclaimed folk artists when they pick up their moon guitars. The documentary Manzhou Ladies chronicles their lives, led by folk treasure Zhang Rigui, depicting their resilience in preserving local ballads across decades. Now, as young apprentices struggle with language and cultural gaps, the future of these timeless tunes hangs in the balance.

In the hotel room, a girl is lying next to another girl. She walks to the bathroom and seems to be talking to someone else. Is she mentally disturbed, or is there another conspiracy?

The traveler lost his way in the snow and stumbled upon an ancient ritual, leading to an unknown abyss.

Me and my sister. I don't think an answer is needed but the endless feeling spreading.

Treasure Island opens with an animated fairy tale about a beautiful island filled with hidden treasures. As the tale unfolds, a parallel story takes place in reality—following two young women from Vietnam and Indonesia who are stranded in Taiwan, victims of human trafficking. They once believed coming to this treasure island for work would let them support their families and build a better life back home. But that fairy-tale dream soon collapses, overwhelmed by the harsh realities they must face.

When Taiwanese citizens vanish in China, a journalist returns home in search of answers. What begins as reporting becomes a personal reckoning—revealing the high cost of speaking out and the quiet erosion of freedom in Taiwan.

"Taichung Way" is an original animated short set in Taichung, Taiwan. Through local dishes and a journey home, it follows a young person who has returned home. The film delicately portrays the taste of home and heartfelt human connections, capturing everyday streets and alleys bringing to life the warm memories of Taichung.

A glorified childhood memory: a crispy dessert with a hole in the middle, seen in a Japanese cartoon. The mother corrects: It was a soft doughnut. This cognitive distortion inspired this film, which challenges the boundaries of subjective perception. Images and sounds mix and overlap. Street noise, excerpts of faces, snippets of interviews. Only the people's answers are visible, the questions remain hidden. Once you think about it, consciousness piles up.

It is a story about family relationships and alienation. A man who had been away from home for many years boarded a train and once again walked the familiar streets. He encountered his brother, the only one left at home, and the accumulated conflicts intertwined with his memories.

In a city of silent hearts, Ah-Hua meets Xiao-Ya online. He then feels a fleeting warmth in his still life. When she vanishes, his world dims. Their sudden reunion feels like fate... but is it a second chance, or just another beautiful illusion?

This silent footage documents the survey conducted between March and April 1937 (Showa 12) by Keitaro Miyamoto, Toru Ogawa, and Tadao Kano in the mountainous regions of southern Taiwan, home to the Paiwan people. Compiled and edited by the Attic Museum, the film includes intertitles and was completed as a finished work. The cinematographer was Keitaro Miyamoto.

They were once Taiwan’s wildest stunt heroes! In the 1970s, a taxi driver led the nation’s top stunt riders and daredevil performers to form the "Shenfeng Stunt Troupe," risking their lives in breathtaking shows that packed arenas and made headlines across the island. Now, the aging team leader’s youngest daughter sets out on a journey to find and reunite the former comrades who once "burned their youth on tires." When the Rumble Sounds Again is a true and thrilling Taiwanese legend — a story that reignites the roaring engines and unyielding spirit of a generation that refused to give up.

In Taiwan, there is a group of clown artists whose stage is not in a theater, but in hospitals. They are not doctors, yet they bring healing through physical theater performances. These “clown doctors,” with their signature red noses, bring laughter and music into the cold, clinical environment of hospitals, offering moments of relief and emotional comfort to patients, families, and healthcare workers alike.

In Cute Syndrome Town, residents trade with the Cute Virus for adorable looks, gaining shallow, fake happiness. Jane tries to restore their true selves, only to learn reality is more complex than she thought.

The body serves as a vessel that stores self-awareness.

Xiaonan does not like smelly or messy places, but he is willing to brave his aunt’s chicken hatchery to make sure his egg friend Silly Head hatches.

The protagonist abandoned his dreams of the past due to an accident, and the trauma made him afraid for a long time to confront the things he once loved. It wasn't until middle age that a fortuitous event allowed him to face his true feelings again.

Besides exploring complex student relationships, family dynamics, and gender-based violence, the film reflects the director’s perspective as a teacher, subtly expressing anxiety and lament over the loss of innocence in the harsh realities of modern youth.

My first living space after I was born, located in an old street. This old apartment has a long shape and a river on the back. the world outside changed as time goes by, the house gathered the smell of life. A small cloud visits the space and goes through it. Time and memory became like a dream in a daylight.

Discuss the rarely-noticed headless corpses and their emotions as victims of history under the issue of justice in the transformation of Aboriginal history, and use headless ghosts as objects of historical compilation to reflect on the over-ethicalization of recent historical writing and ghost discussions. Those on the margins of history, and the imagination of ethnic groups endowed with excessive integrity.

In 1871, the photographer John Thomson came to Formosa to take photos which became the first images of the island seen in the West. Things have changed after more than a century. I chose one of his photos showing an indigenous mother and her child shot in Mucha, Kaohsiung as the starting point of an exploration of the island’s past and the mysterious origin of its ancestors.

A big cock go-go boy, a she-male hooker, and a couple of lesbians making out in a seedy men’s room set the stage for a debate on Taiwanese independence.

A taiwanese sport film

When Director Laway was small, his father began working as crew on fishing boats out of the port of Kaohsiung. All through his youth, Laway's mother took him by Kinmen bus from Taitung to Kaohsiung to visit his father every year or two. Amis people have worked on fishing boats for years, and such family visits were common in the years from 1940 to 1960. With permission granted in April of 2013, Director Laway picked up his camera to film six of the Amis crew members. He boarded a Taiwanese ocean-going ship on Bona Bei island - an American possession in the South Pacific. With this ship he followed a purse seiner for 20 days, filming the crew's hard work and difficult life. To conclude, how was Laway’s father able to get through twenty years of his working career as a crew member? The director's only assistant is the son of a photographer - Mayaw‧Laway

Authoritarianism deprives people of their right to live freely: rebellion or escape? We can only fantasize about a better future within the confines of unchanging laws.

I’ve practiced these words for 20 years now, but maybe being candid isn’t the best idea. I’m starting my countdown again, another 20 years. Maybe the time will be right by then.

The Lin family was a poor family with a kind father and filial son. Life was originally harmonious, but the good times were not always so good. Ever since Grandma learned from her aunt that her second brother, Rensheng, had passed away on the 17th of last month, she fell down and fell into a coma, and the Lin family fell into a predicament because of Grandma's huge operation expenses. Ruolan, the eldest sister who is also a good student, gives up her chance to go to university because she can't bear to let her father work too hard and quits school to sing at a concert hall. The whole school helped out, and the story of the filial son of the Lin family aroused the sympathy of the public.